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Tribute Feature: Delbert Tibbs, Daryl Davis & Leslie Thomas

Peacemaker; Rest in peace..

On November 23, 2013, the death penalty abolition movement lost a beloved family member and friend when Delbert, 74, passed away in his home in Chicago.

Delbert Tibbs was many things. He was a sage, a poet, a leader and the nicest person you could ever meet, with a strong intellect, a spirit and a unwavering commitment that inspired all of us. It was an honor to know this peacemaker, and to learn from him.

An Interview with Daryl Davis

We are fortunate to have Daryl Davis, author of Klan-Destine Relationships, to interview. Daryl is a brave fellow who as an African-American interested in issues of race, has contacted a number of members of the Ku Klux Klan and interviewed them, often before tipping them off to his ethnicity.

A good number of these Klansman later became friendly with Daryl, and from the stories they told and his own experiences, he formed the basis of what would become Klan-Destine Relationships.

Justice: “A Voice For The Dead”

Leslie Thomas has worked on a prodigious number of high-profile cases of deaths in custody during his 25-year career as a human rights barrister.

But there is one that affected him more than most. “Christopher Alder was the black paratrooper who died on camera, captured on CCTV, in [a] Hull police station. I think it was the first time I actually shed tears, when I saw the inhumanity of man towards man,” he recalls.